Winding machine



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UNITED STATES ALONZO E. EHOADES, or HOPEDALE, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSTGNoE. To `DRAPER OOR- PORATION, or HOPEDALE, ivrAsSAoHUSETTS,r A CORPORATION or MAINE.

WINDING MACHINE.

Application led November 27, 1923. y Serial Nol 677,209.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ALONZO E. RHOADES, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of I-Iopedale, county of Worcester,

' dyeing, bleaching, or otherwise treating the yarn.

Usual machines of this type comprise a tubular guide for the chain which leads through a rotatable winding device having a cylindrical hub provided at its lower end with a support for the binding material and at its upper end with a winding plate having a delivery eye through which the binder is guided. As the hub of the winding de vice is necessarily of considerable length diliculty ha-s been experienced in inserting the numerous free ends of the chain through the long passage in the hub.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide a standard for supporting the binder guide which will present a longitudinal opening or openings through which access may be Iobtained to the chain in order that the end may be more readily introduced through the winding mechanism.

A further object of the invention is to provide the tubular chain guide, and 'preferably also the passage in the winding plate, with a lining of material which will not corrode, stain or otherwise aiect the yarn of the chain. v

Another object of the invention is to provide a more rigid winding mechanism than heretofore employed.

In prior constructions the binder is led through a delivery eye in the winding plate and thence beneath, or beneath and over, one or more felt or bre pads, the endsfof which are secured to the winding plate in order to impose a proper tension upon the binder. In such constructions it is necessary to raise the central portion of the pad to insert the end of the binder therebeneath, an operation which is inconvenient `and requires considerable time.

A further object of the present invention isfto provide a novel `tension mechanism which maybe readily threaded.

Other objects and features of the invention will more fully appear from the following description and the accompanying drawings and will be particularlyy pointed out in theclaims. f Y

In the drawings: l

Fig. l is a side elevation-of a winding machine embodying the invention;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same, a portion of the hollow bed of the machine being broken away to illustrate the driving mechanism for the winding device; and,

Fig. 3 isa vertical sectional view in a plane extending transversely of the bed and axially of one of the winding mechanisms. l

lindrical brackets 5 which, in the machine u shown in the present illustration, are three in number, but, of course, may be of any other desirable number. 4A tubular chain guiding member 6 iits'within andy is y'rigidly secured to the lower end of each of the cylindrical brackets. The tube ok is provided with a lining or bushing 7 of anti-corrosive material. The term anticorrosive'is'used herein as meaning a material which will not become rusted, corroded, `or `otherwise 4affected by moisture or chemicals to produce a product which will abrade, stain, orotherwise affect the yarn which is 'passed through it. K, i The bracket 5 is counterbored to provide a step bearing 8 for a sleeve 9,which extends upwardly through the bed and is rotatably mounted upon the tubular chain guide. The sleeve 9 has secured toit agear 10 which is located in the chamber 11 of the hollow bed. `Pinions 12, suitably mounted upon studs 13 extending upwardly from the base of the bed, serve to cause the rota.-

tion ofthe several winding devices from a elled gear 18 upon a suitable driving shaft 19 which is mounted in the standard 16. The sleeve 9 has also aflixed to it the hub 20 of a support 21 for the binder.

The binder support as illustrated herein is in the form of la circular disk having a downwardly extending flange and provided near its periphery with an upwardly extending preferably conical stud or spindle 22 upon which a cop, ball or spool of binder 23 may be mounted. The binder is carried fro-m the cop, ball or spool upwardly through a delivery eye 24 in a winding arm or plate 25 which as illustrated herein is in the form of a circular disk to provide a counterlbalanced construction and which is mounted at the upper end of a. standard 26 which extends upwardly from the binder support 21. Y

In previous constructions the winding plate 25 has been connected to the binder support by a cylindrical hub. In the prescnt invention the standard 26 which supports the winding plate presents a longitudinal opening to permit access to the chain of yarn.

The preferred form of standard is in the form of a longitudinal section of a hollow truncated cone having at its lower end a laterally extending flange 27 which is secured to the binder support 21 by suitable machine screws 28 and at its upper end a laterally extending flange 29 which is suitably secured to the under side of the winding plate 25. The winding plate 25 is provided with a passage for the chain in axial alinernent with the tubular chain guide 6 and preferably the wall of the passage in the winding plate is provided with a bushing 30 of anti-corrosive material, of the character hereto-fore described, such, for example, as brass or bronze.

By reason of this construction the end of the chain can be readily inserted upwardly through the lower end of the tubular chain guide an'd before the ends of the yarn become massed as they are pressed upwardly the end of the chain can be grasped by the operator and drawn upwardly and easily inserted through the aperture in the bushing 30 which lines the passage through the winding plate. By reason of this construction a considerable inconvenience in threadingthe yarn chain through the winding mechanism is avoided and the time of the operator saved. Furthermore the smooth surface of the lining of the tubular guide and of the passage through the winding plate facilitates the insertion of the end of the yarn chain. l

Another object of the invention is -to provide an improved tension device for the binder comprising a construction which can be readily threaded. The preferred tension device which is illustrated herein comprises a pair of fingers 31 and 32 which extend in parallelism with the winding plate 25 and are located adjacent thereto. One end of each of the fingers 31 and 32 is bent at rig-ht angles tol the plane in which the lingers lie and provided with a reduced portion which extends through a suitable hole in the plate and is secured to the plate by a nut 33 upon said reduced end portion and which abuts against the under face of the winding plate 25. The free ends 34 and 35 of the fingers 31 and 32 respectively are curved outwardly with relation to the delivery eye 24 so that the binder will not slip over the ends of the lingers.

When threading the binder it is merely necessary to pass the end of the binder upwar'dly through the delivery eye 24C, thence over the fingers 31, thence under the finger 31 and beneath the other finger 82 and thence over the Enger 82 and .around the chain which has been inserted through the tubular chain guide and the passage in the winding plate.

The winding machine illustrated herein is provided with the usual plate 36 having guiding apertures 37 for the chains which direct the same around a roller 36 and from which they are led upwardly through the stationary tubular chain guide and thence through the winding mechanism as above described.

In the operation of the machine the winding mechanism is driven at an appropriate speed to produce the proper winding of the binder around the travelling chain during its progress upwardly through the tubular guide and winding mechanism. Thus the yarns of a chain may be securely bound together in such a manner that they will not become separated or tangled during the boiling, dyeing, bleaching, or other processes.

The winding is evenly applied so that it can be readily unwound in the usual types of unwinding machines which are well known in the art.

It will be understood that the embodiment of the invention disclosed herein is of an illustrative character and is not restrictive and that various changes in form, proportion, construction and arrangement of parts may be made within the spirit and scope of the following claims.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is:

1. A winding machine for binding a travelling chain of yarn comprising a stationary tubular guide for the chain, a support for the binder rotatable about said tubular chain guide and having a binder supporting spindle located at. a distance from the axis thereof, a standard extending upwardly from said support presenting a longitudinal opening to permit access to said chain and provided at its upper end with a passage for the chain in axial alinement with said tubular chain guide and with means for guiding the binding located at a distance from said passage operable to wind the binder upon the chain beyond the end of said standard.

2. A winding machine for binding a travelling chain of yarn comprising a stationary tubular guide for the chain, a support for the binder rotatable about said tubular chain guide and having a binder supporting spindle located at a distance from the axis thereof, a st-andard comprising a longitudinal section of a hollow truncated cone secured at its lower end to said binder support and extending upwardly therefrom and presenting a longitudinally extending opening to permit access to said chain, a winding member secured to the upper end of said standard having a passage for the chain in axial alinement with said tubular chain guide and provided with means located at a distance from said passage or guiding the binder operable to wind the binder upon the chain beyond the end of said standard.

3. A winding machine for binding a travelling chain of yarn comprising a` stationary tubular chain guiding member having a lining of anti-corrosive material, means for support-ing and guiding the binding material rotatably mounted upon said chain guiding member and means for rotating said binder supporting and guiding means.

4f. A winding machine for binding a travelling chain of yarn comprising a stationary tubular guide for the chain having a lining of anti-corrosive material, a support for the binder rotatable about the axis of said tubular chain guide, a standard extending upwardly from said support presenting a longitudinal opening to permit access to said chain and provided at its upper end with a winding plate having a passage provided with a lining of anti-corrosive material for said chain in axial alinement with said tubular chain guide and a delivery eye in said plate located at a distance from said passage for guiding the binder.

5. A winding machine for binding a travelling chain of yarn comprising a stationary tubular chain guiding member, a binder support rotatably mounted on said tubular member, a standard extending upwardly from said binder support provided at its upper end with a winding plate having a passage for said chain and a delivery eye for said binder located at a distance from said passage, lingers secured to said plate located adjacent to and upon opposite sides of said delivery eye and having their free ends curved outwardly in opposite directions with respect to said eye operable to impose a proper tension upon the binder and adapted to be readily threaded.

6. A winding machine for binding a travelling chain of yarn comprising a hollow bed, a bracket secured to the under face of said bed, a vertical tubular chain guide rigidly secured to said bracket and extending upwardly therefrom, a sleeve rotatably mounted upon said tubular chain guide, a

step bearing for said sleeve in said bracket,v

a gear located Within said hollow bed and secured to said sleeve, a binder supporting member secured to said sleeve and located above said bed, a standard extending upwardly from said binder supporting member having at its upper end a winding plate having a passage for the chain in axial alinement with said tubular chain guide and provided with a delivery eye. for said binder located at a distance from said passage.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specication.

ALONZO E. RHOADES. 

